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Aguero celebrates the goal that won the league for Manchester City

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Nick Hornby

Seven hundred and sixty games – plus European, FA Cup and League Cup matches Turn to page 3

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EXCITING SEASON PICKS UP A BOOKING

FOLLOW that! The Premier League kicks off today (Saturday 18 August). But will the next nine months reach the fever pitch of last season, which was so gripping that Nick Hornby wrote an ebook about it?

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News CHURCH GROUPS REACT TO REPORT Scrapping limit ‘will worsen gambling’

THE Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has recommended the scrapping of the upper limit on the number of B2 gaming machines that betting shops can have on their premises.

In its report The Gambling Act 2005: A Bet Worth Taking?, the committee says that the limit of four B2 machines – which have a maximum stake of £100 and a maximum prize of £500 – has had the unintended consequence of encouraging clusters of betting shops. It recommends that in some cases local authorities should allow premises to have more than four, but if ‘problems arise’ they should have the right to require the removal of machines.

But church groups that gave evidence to the committee say the move will lead to an increase in problem gambling. They point out that although local authorities could act on the number of machines in betting shops, they would not have the power to stop the number of such premises on the high street increasing.

Gareth Wallace of The Salvation Army says: ‘This is a one-way street towards more addictive BOLTON Wanderers chairman Phil Gartside presented Captain Darren Cox with a gambling machines in our communities. We’re football and shirt signed by players just before the Salvation Army minister took up a perplexed that the committee would recommend new position overseas. Captain Cox has been manning a matchday car park for further liberalisation of gambling machines when 12 years to raise £100,000 for local Salvation Army centres, which provide the they heard evidence that problem gambling is on the community with food relief, help with addictions, counselling and youth work. rise.’

Heritage Somerfield Group donates the use of its car park – yards from the Trotters’ The church groups point out that statistics from Reebok Stadium – so that The Salvation Army can raise money. charity GamCare show that 29 per cent of callers Darren, who has been transferred to a Salvation Army church in Australia with his cited B2 or virtual roulette as a problem. wife Katie and children Jessie and Joseph, said: ‘I won’t miss the cold on a midweek Helena Chambers night but will miss the of Quaker Action great banter I have on Alcohol and had with supporters.

LEGACY PLANS FOR OLYMPIC VENUE Drugs said: ‘The The car park has select committee been, and we hope THE Salvation Army is to build a visitor centre and develop has not given the will continue to be, cycling trails at its Hadleigh Farm site, where Julie Bresset of a hugely important increase in problem France (pictured) and the Czech Republic’s Jaroslav Kulhavy won income generator for gambling the gold in the Olympic mountain biking at the weekend.

The Salvation Army’s priority it deserves.

Working with Essex County Council, which will contribute land projects.’

Around 100,000 from the neighbouring Essex County Park, The Salvation Army will Darren is pictured more individuals redevelop dilapidated buildings, create a visitor hub and develop receiving the ball and and their families cycling trails, a cycle hire scheme and other trails for orienteering shirt from the Bolton have suffered from and cross-country running. chairman, watched by problem gambling At the heart of the new hub will be a building containing a Heritage directors Paul since the Gambling restaurant staffed by trainees from Hadleigh Training Centre – Culshaw (left) and Sean Act of 2005.’ which teaches life skills and employment skills to people, many of Munsie. them with learning disabilities – and a centre for families.

The developments will also provide new YOUR prayers are requested for links to the existing tearoom at Hadleigh FASHION LABEL Stuart, who has type-2 diabetes; Training Centre and rare breed farm. and for Christine, who has MS. pp88 MAKES A STATEMENT It is hoped that building work will begin early next year.

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Football managed to encompass matters of life and death From page 1 lie ahead, but no fan is going to forget last season in a hurry.

The title race was decided only in its final moments.

At Sunderland, Manchester United were securing the win they needed to give themselves a small chance of retaining their title.

Manchester City needed only to beat relegation-threatened QPR to win the league. But as the game went into stoppage time, they were losing 2-1. The title they had not won for 44 years seemed unattainable. Then Dzeko and Aguero scored – and City were champions.

But that drama was not the whole story of the season.

As Nick Hornby recalls in his Penguin Specials book Pray: Notes on the 2011–12 Football Season, there were some extraordinary results. Manchester United beat Arsenal 8-2 at Old Trafford. Manchester City won away at Manchester United 6-1. Manchester City’s success prompted debate about money. Players fell out with their team-mates and managers. In October, there were two ‘banal and ugly’ exchanges between players that led to accusations of racism.

Then, in an FA Cup game against Spurs, Bolton’s Fabrice Muamba suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch. A specialist in the crowd and a medical team took him to the London Chest Hospital. He was ‘effectively dead for 78 minutes’. Over the next few days, players, pundits and fans passed on the message: ‘Pray 4 Muamba’.

‘There is a relationship between sport and religion,’ writes Hornby, ‘which is why the spiritual dimension to this touching concern for Muamba never seemed odd, even in an irreligious country like England.’ He notes that fans, ‘even those who are atheists’, pray for a goal that will rescue a game or a season.

Muamba recovered and thanked God. He tweeted on the last day of the season that he was asking God ‘to help my team beat the relegation’. But Bolton went down.

Hornby writes that last season ‘football managed to encompass politics, high finance, the law and matters of life and death’. It ‘enthralled, appalled, depressed, elated, shocked and enraged’.

It probably will again this season, because football manages to reflect the highs and lows of people’s lives We enjoy good times, but suffer failures. We experience hope and disappointment. We meet all kinds of characters.

We’d like to think that we never put a foot wrong, but there are uglier sides to our personalities. We face matters of life and death.

Millions of footballers and fans have chosen, through good and bad times, to pray. Looking at the message of Jesus, they have realised that prayer does not provide some endless supply of chances for us to have everything go our way. But it does allow us to express thanks, to get our frustrations and anger off our chest and to try to get on the same wavelength as God, who cares for us, forgives us when we go wrong and invites us to put our trust in him.

The Bible gives some advice: ‘Pray at all times’ (1 Thessalonians 5:17 Good News Bible).

Will we follow it up?

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Chelsea’s Daniel Sturridge wears a T-shirt in support of Fabrice Muamba

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NET The new boat provided by The Salvation Army

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LMOST 18 months after the earthquake and tsunami that brought devastation to the east coast of Japan, The Salvation Army is still working to help individuals and communities reclaim the lives they used to know.

Across the north of the country, assistance has been given to the fishing community. The Salvation Army has ordered 30 fishing boats, some of which have already been delivered. The boats are playing a vital role in the rejuvenation of the region and have been used not only to restart fishing but also to clean the seabed of waste that was washed out from the coastal areas.

DREW RUTHVEN reports from Japan on how The Salvation Army is helping fishing communities to regain their livelihood

So much rubble and debris was washed into the sea that fishing communities have not been able to resume their normal routine. Some of the vessels will help to reestablish the oyster industry, which is important for the country’s economy.

On the island of Izushima fishing is the only industry.

This industry was destroyed when the 16-metre tsunami destroyed the livelihoods of the several hundred people who live there. Homes and buildings in the harbour area are gone. Nine fishermen from the island – and another 25 in trees attest to the height of the waves. a nearby village – were lost.

The Salvation Army in Japan – On the island, and on the adjacent assisted by the movement in other parts mainland, the wharfs have sunk more of the world – is helping the coastal than a metre and all boat-building and fishing industry through a scheme that repair equipment has gone. Besides addresses long-term needs. Along with the loss of 90 per cent of the boats, all the 30 small fishing boats, an order has of the 370 forklift trucks, plus many been placed for a substantially bigger buoys, nets and fishery farms were lost boat that will benefit the whole comor destroyed. Buoys tangled up in the munity.

The ‘big boat’ will be used to monitor the fishing grounds, ensuring the security and safety of the smaller boats in the fleet. It will also have a medical emergency transport role for all people living on islands near the mainland.

Essentially, the new boat will act in a policing role, while also functioning as a floating ambulance.

Before the tsunami, the fish-

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GAIN Fishermen are presented with a forklift truck for use at the harbour and (left) head out in the new boat

O Major Drew Ruthven is Co-ordinator of The Salvation Army’s International Emergency Services, based in London

ing industry’s governing body had a vessel that was used by a number of families, under the organisation of the local fishermen’s union. The boat was used to move goods and people around the various fishing communities. In doing this the users of the boat got to know the people who live on the islands, also enabling them to form helpful contacts with the mainland. The

well-used old vessel was destroyed in the wave that hit the coast.

The fishermen’s union will use the new ‘big boat’ supplied by The Salvation Army to maintain contact with the widespread members of its community – especially people living away from the mainland. The fishing grounds are slowly recovering and families are gradually working through the devastation, though it will be many years before the industry is anything like it was before the tsunami.

Each of the area’s 15 harbours has

been given a forklift truck (one provided by the Lions Club, the other 14 by The Salvation Army). These can be used to lift small boats in need of repair, as well as in the loading and unloading of fish. The Salvation Army has also provided lifejackets, ropes and boots. In the days immediately after the disaster, feeding programmes meant that families could begin to rebuild their communities.

After such a devastating blow, The Salvation Army in Japan is pleased to be helping the fishing industry back towards normality. Many families will benefit from this project. None of this would have been possible without generous donations from around the world.

Leaders of The Salvation Army in Japan have received praise and countless messages of thanks for all that it is doing to help the people of Japan recover from their terrible disaster. They, in turn, are grateful to God for his guidance as they plan how best to participate in the country’s recovery. They look to him in hope for all that is to come.

O This article first appeared in the Salvation Army All the World magazine

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Ring-fenced IT was a simple aspiration – inspire a generation. And for those generations clustered together in front of the telly, the London Olympics offered many moments of inspirational viewing.

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IN a live interview with NBC, American gymnast Gabby Douglas gave thanks to God after she won gold in the Olympic women’s individual allaround competition.

She said: ‘Being an Olympic champion is definitely an amazing feeling and I give all the glory to God. It’s kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to him and the blessings fall down on me.’

The Olympian also posted regular tweets about her faith throughout the competition, saying: ‘Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things he does for me’ and ‘God has truly blessed me! Remember to always give him the glory for he is great!’

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Golden girl thanks God

OLYMPIC champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce – who won gold in the women’s 100m final at London’s Olympic Stadium – revealed that trusting in God helped her through the competition, reported the Daily Mail.

According to the paper, the Jamaican athlete said of her race: ‘I was a bit nervous but I COMEDIAN Russell remove any doubt surrounding believed in God and Brand has had the words the religious theme behind the I trusted him to carry of a Christian prayer tattooed new tattoo, the reference is me through.’ on his arm, reported The Sun. accompanied by a cross.’

After completBrand’s new tattoo is based The paper hinted that the ing the race in 10.75 on a prayer often described prayer tattoo may be linked seconds, the sprinter as the Prayer of St Francis to Brand’s former alcohol and says: ‘Lord, make me a and drug addiction, as the lay on the track channel of thy peace.’ The text features in the Alcoholics saying: ‘Thank you, paper went on Anonymous Twelve Steps and Jesus.’

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It wasn’t only the participants who had to put in the hours in early-morning swimming sessions or late-night roadrunning. They needed coaches – people to guide, advise, encourage and steer.

There had to be facilities – somewhere to play, to train – room for improvement.

They had to have a time when they decided they wanted to have a go.

For some, such as diver Tom Daley, that moment will have been in childhood. For others, such as Olympic champion rower Helen Glover who first picked up an oar just four years ago, the time comes later in life.

If the next generation is to realise their sporting dreams, there must be investment – in school sports, in sports clubs, in public places and spaces that don’t cost the earth for a child from a deprived area to enjoy, and by people being willing to be coaches.

Sport offers a young person discipline, self-worth, purpose and achievement. It offers some a life out of poverty and crime.

A worthy Olympic legacy would be to ring-fence funding for inner-city and isolated rural sport – to give young people the chance to be inspired. Such investment would be worth its weight in gold.

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From the lighting of the cauldron, through Super Saturday with Team GB’s three athletics golds, to the Closing Ceremony, there was much to celebrate in those who went faster, further and stronger.

The demonstration of global sporting prowess was testament to investment.

The creativity of architects, the skill of engineers, the craft of artisans was there for the world to see – and, it is to be hoped, to buy.

In the stadiums, the fruit of years of work was harvested in a matter of minutes or, by some athletes, seconds.

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OLYMPIC decathlete Daley Thompson told the Daily Mail that the Bible holds an ‘everlasting resonance’ for him.

The gold medallist said: ‘I went to Sunday school of my own accord from the age of seven because I was gripped by stories like the Sermon on the Mount and David and Goliath. I found them so believable.’

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Litter thrown by drivers is a load of NINE million drivers have thrown litter from their cars in the past year, research from Green Flag breakdown service has revealed.

More than 29 million cigarette butts, 17.4 million food items and 6.2 million drinks bottles and cans were thrown from vehicle windows during that time.

The research also showed that 11 million pieces of fruit and 4.5 million sweet wrappers were hurled from car windows.

More than a quarter of drivers (27 per cent) claim they throw out items to prevent a smell building up, and more than one in five excuse themselves by saying

Top five items thrown from cars: Cigarette butts (29 million) Food (17.4 million items including fast food) Food wrappers (11.8 million) Drinks bottles and cans (6.2 million) Tissues (5.2 million)

Vehicle rubbish lines the roads

they do it to prevent their car becoming cluttered.

Seventeen per cent of drivers said they had not been able to wait to get to a litter bin, while 16 per cent claimed they did not stop to deposit items, because the road was too busy.

Green Flag’s Miranda Schunke says: ‘It’s disgraceful that our roads are being clogged up with rubbish from motorists who are too lazy to find a bin. Not only is litter unsightly, it is hazardous to the wildlife that lives in our verges and hedgerows, and it can pose a risk to other road users. All drivers have a responsibility to keep roads clean and safe.

‘Motorists should also be aware that if they eat, drink or smoke behind the wheel, they risk between three and nine penalty points for not driving with due care and attention.’

The research found that a £50 fine would be sufficient to stop a majority of drivers throwing litter from their vehicles, and a third of drivers would be deterred by the threat of litter-picking community service. Drivers can be issued with an £80 fixed penalty notice if caught dropping litter.

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garbage Slow down for safety THE Department for Transport has launched a public consultation on introducing lower speed limits for rural and urban roads. The consultation will consider reducing speed limits on some country roads to 40mph and introducing more 20mph zones on urban roads.

David Bizley, RAC technical director, says: ‘Most drivers are happy with current limits but there is also broad support for lower limits where there is a proven benefit for road safety such as near schools and accident blackspots.’

The RAC Report on Motoring 2012, which surveyed more than 1,000 drivers, found that two thirds of motorists support different speed limits on similar classes of road depending on suitability.

However, the report also revealed that 37 per cent of drivers admit to speeding in 50 and 60mph zones, 46 per cent to speeding in 30mph zones, and 36 per cent to speeding in 20mph zones.

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In 2009, Lavinia Brennan and Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs went on a twomonth visit to the slums of Delhi. Working at an aftercare home for victims of trafficking, they witnessed the devastating effects the sex trade has on young women. Lavinia and Natasha felt compelled to do something to help these women get their lives back on track. The result is the luxury fashion label Beulah London. LAVINIA BRENNAN tells Renée Davis how ethical fashion is changing lives

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E were in India with a group from our church, working in an aftercare home with girls who had been trafficked,’ says Lavinia Brennan about her time abroad with her friend Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs.

‘In the afternoons we were working in a production unit teaching the women how to sew.

‘We saw that they were being taught new skills, but being able to find a job was difficult because as soon as any employer found out the women had been trafficked, they no longer wanted to keep them on.

‘We wanted to support nongovernmental organisations that were providing those women with an alternative sustainable livelihood,’ she explains. ‘So Natasha and I thought: “How can we do that?” As there was

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We want people who believe in restoring the lives of trafficked girls to be wearing our label

Lavinia Brennan and (right) with Natasha Rufus Isaacs

so much garment manufacturing in the area, we thought we would try setting up a fashion label and involve the trafficked women in production.’

Lavinia and Natasha support two non-governmental organisations, one in Calcutta and one in Delhi. Each organisation employs around 70 women. The initial vision was to have the women create every single dress, but Lavinia and Natasha discovered it wouldn’t be that simple.

The average age at which a girl is trafficked is 13, so skills such as using a pair of dressmaking scissors were beyond some of them. Because the girls didn’t have the high level of skill needed to sew clothes for a luxury fashion label, Lavinia and Natasha gave them less complicated pieces to make, such as T-shirts and scarves. This work is carried out in Calcutta.

In Delhi, girls with higher skills make a lot of the dresses.

The money made goes back into training schemes and employment for the girls.

So how did Lavinia and Natasha come up with the name Beulah London for their label?

‘It took a long time to find a suitable name,’ explains Lavinia. ‘On our last night in India, a woman said to us: “I sense God is saying ‘Beulah’ to me. I don’t know what it means.”

‘We thought: “OK, cool” and dismissed it. We came up with another name, but it was too similar to an

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to be more than a luxury fashion label.

They thought carefully about the type of clientele they wanted to attract to their pieces.

‘When you have a luxury brand, you have to be careful how you want the brand’s image to be portrayed,’ Lavinia says.

‘We want people who believe in restoring the lives of trafficked girls and women to be wearing our label. We want the “right” people to represent the cause.

‘Natasha and I love vintage style and classic elegant pieces. We combined what we both love with timelessness and something that would appeal to an older audience,’ Lavinia explains.

‘Most of our clients range from around the late twenties to early fifties. A lot of our customers come to us because many of our pieces have sleeves, which they say is often difficult to find.’

B existing brand. We kept on praying about it and Beulah kept on coming back to us. We didn’t really like it, but eventually we said: “OK, God, we’ll call it Beulah.”

‘Beulah is a biblical name; it literally means “marriage”,’ Lavinia says. ‘It is linked to God’s promise of coming out of darkness into freedom, light and restoration. The name is symbolic of what we set out to do.’

Lavinia and Natasha wanted Beulah

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eulah London was launched in January last year. In a short time, the success has been phenomenal. Can this be attributed to the nature of the label?

‘It’s a combination of things. We have worked hard and are committed to the cause. Everything we earn we put back into the business,’ Lavinia says.

‘We have been given a lot of press coverage. The media have picked up on the story behind the brand. Ethical fashion is being talked about more and more. We took a huge leap of faith and have been really blessed.’

Beulah London has also been featured in fashion publications such as Vogue.co.uk and Grazia.

And the label has caught the eye of fashion-conscious celebrities. The Duchess of Cambridge and American actress Jessica Alba are among the many who admire the designs and the cause. Lavinia says it is fantastic to see

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From page 9 a beautiful woman such as Kate wearing their designs.

Beulah London has also attracted support from eco-sustainable fashion icon Livia Firth. She has stocked the label on her ethical fashion section on online store Yoox.com. Lavinia says that having her on board is amazing.

Lavinia and Natasha aren’t afraid to say that one of the reasons behind Beulah is their strong Christian faith.

Lavinia recalls the time she came to faith.

‘I became a Christian around the age of 15,’ she says. ‘My mum had always got me to go along to church with her and I’d always go on church holidays.

But I never really wanted to take any of it in.

Prayer is probably the most powerful thing we can do to stop trafficking

‘There was never any lightbulb moment in regards to discovering faith, but I started to enjoy being with the people around me. I enjoyed the talks and the worship. I now have a much deeper faith than before.’

In India, Lavinia learnt just how important faith is, and how effective prayer is for young girls who have been trafficked.

‘We went to a remote village on the Bangladesh border where the girls were trafficked. It was so sad because the place was so devoid of God. It seemed so evil and corrupt, and after seeing that I felt as if I wanted to pray more about the situation. Prayer is probably the most powerful thing we can do to help stop trafficking,’ says Lavinia.

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any of the girls in aftercare homes have been through harrowing circumstances, having been taken away from their families and sold. Some of them are as young as 11.

But one thing that Lavinia admires is their ‘in spite of’ attitude.

‘They are the most beautiful girls.

They were so happy and you would

TV presenter Natalie Pinkham wears Beulah’s Tigris dress

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Jessica Alba in the Shibani scarf

‘People need to be made more aware of the issue,’ says Lavinia. ‘Not many people know about trafficking so it’s important for those people who do to speak out.

‘And there is not only sex trafficking.

There is domestic trafficking and organ trafficking. Slavery is widespread. It is important to support agencies that are already doing amazing work.

‘Fashion is key to employment, and that’s why Natasha and I focused on it.

Employment helps women to rebuild their lives. One of the women said to us that before she came to us to work she couldn’t look people in the eye. Now she can. So empowering these women is vital.’

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never have been able to tell what they had been through,’ she says.

‘They don’t feel sorry for themselves, which makes you think: “Actually, I am not going to feel sorry for you either.”

Instead you realise they are strong and want to make something of their lives.’

As human trafficking continues to be a growing problem, it needs to be tackled in many ways. Ethical fashion is the route that Lavinia and Natasha chose, but there are many more ways to help.

s Beulah London continues to grow and gain recognition, the clothes are being stocked at mainstream stores and boutiques, such as Harvey Nichols and Kim Vine. The success of Beulah can also be attributed to Lavinia and Natasha’s tightly knit working and social relationship.

‘We have been family friends for ever. Our grannies were best friends and so are our mums,’ Lavinia explains.

‘There’s a bit of an age gap as I am 24 and Natasha is 29. I think that has an impact on how we work together, because we are able to take our social time away from each other. But we are still really close and go on holidays together.

‘It is so nice to have someone to bounce ideas off and have support from. I can’t imagine doing this work all by myself, and I’m sure Natasha feels the same.

‘It is also important that Natasha is a Christian. We can both pray about things, and that has been key in everything. We have been blessed with the business and each other. ’

They don’t feel sorry for themselves, which makes you think: ‘Actually, I am not going to feel sorry for you either’

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WORDSEARCH Look up, down, forwards, backwards and diagonally on the grid to find these words beginning with ‘sand’ Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9 Solution on page 15

SANDAL SANDALWOOD SANDBAG SANDBANK

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Cleanse (5) 5. Journal (5) 8. Plastic fibre (5) 9. Saunter (5) 10. Protective garment (5) 11. Rowdy (5) 12. Dandy (4) 15. Shoved (6) 17. Gem (5) 18. Tranquil (6) 20. Aid (4) 25. Teacher (5) 26. Barter (5) 27. Mistake (5) 28. Rascal (5) 29. Irritable (5) 30. Authority (5)

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HONEYCOMB Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number

DOWN 1. Celestial body (6) 2. Snub (6) 3. Occurrence (5) 4. Up to the point of (5) 5. Frolicsome (7) 6. Wither (6) 7. Musty (6) 13. Lubricate (3) 14. Sleeping berth (3) 15. Spigot (3) 16. Female sheep (3) 17. Agitated (7) 18. Placard (6) 19. Appalled (6) 21. Handcart (6) 22. Extreme fear (6) 23. Platform (5) 24. Crawl (5)

1. Breathe in 2. Female parent 3. According to the nursery rhyme, where the first little pig went 4. Bat used in tennis 5. Moving swiftly 6. Chess piece

QUICK QUIZ 1. What is the more common name for a polygraph?

2. Which musical includes the song ‘Tomorrow’?

3. Who had a British No 1 hit single with ‘Sailing’?

4. According to the nursery rhyme, how many men did the Grand Old Duke of York have?

5. In which novel does the character Major Major Major Major appear?

6. Complete the proverb: Once bitten…

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Purge. 5 Paper. 8 Vinyl. 9 Amble.

10 Apron. 11 Noisy. 12 Toff. 15 Pushed. 17 Jewel.

18 Placid. 20 Abet. 25 Tutor. 26 Trade. 27 Error.

28 Rogue. 29 Ratty. 30 Power.

DOWN: 1 Planet. 2 Rebuff. 3 Event. 4 Until.

5 Playful. 6 Perish. 7 Rancid. 13 Oil. 14 Bed. 15 Peg. 16 Ewe. 17 Jittery. 18 Poster. 19 Aghast.

21 Barrow. 22 Terror. 23 Stage. 24 Creep.

QUICK QUIZ 1 Lie detector. 2 Annie. 3 Rod Stewart. 4 10,000.

5 Catch-22. 6 Twice shy.

HONEYCOMB 1 Inhale. 2 Mother. 3 Market. 4 Racket. 5 Racing.

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Inner life SOME people are finding it harder than ever before to make ends meet. Many are having to look for new ways to save money.

For example, last year in Britain an additional £30 million was spent in charity shops compared with the previous 12 months.

According to research by the Charity Retail Association (CRA), almost £1 billion was spent in charity shops.

The CRA says that sales of children’s clothes and toys have particularly increased.

For some families, finding money to pay all the bills is a real challenge. They are making difficult choices about where money can be saved.

Coping with these types of stresses every day is tough, but help is at hand.

In the Lord’s Prayer we discover God is interested in helping us with our everyday needs. When we pray ‘Give us this day our daily bread’ we are asking not only

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HANDS TOGETHER, EYES CLOSED

Give us this day our daily bread

ANDREW STONE looks at the Lord’s Prayer

Our Fath Hallowe er, which art in d Heaven, Thy Kin be thy name, gdom co Thy will me, Give us be done, in earth th And forg is day our daily as it is in Heave n.

As we fo ive us our trespa bread; r And lead give them that tr sses, But deliv us not into temp espass against u s; For thin er us from evil. tation, e is the K ingdom, the powe r, and th glory, e For ever an Amen. d ever.

for bread but for all the essentials.

God wants us to pray about these things rather than worry about them.

Jesus told his followers: ‘Don’t worry and ask yourselves, “Will we have anything to eat? Will we have anything to drink?

Will we have any clothes to wear?” Only people who don’t know God are always worrying about such things.

Your Father in Heaven knows that you need all of these’ (Matthew 6:31, 32 Contemporary English Version).

God knows what we need and, if we ask him, he will care for us.

Following God does not necessarily mean he will give us all that we want. But if we do things his way and trust him, we can lose many of the stresses and worries that coping on our own can bring.

It does not matter how tough things may be, God is able to help.

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Food for thought

Encouragement is on the cards At the Salvation Army church I attend we have little blue postcards called ‘encouragement cards’. Anyone can use the cards to send a message to someone, perhaps to say ‘We missed you today’ or ‘Sorry to hear of your difficulties, we are praying for you’.

I imagine that most people are pleased to receive the cards, because they know that people are thinking of them.

The encouragement cards are nothing special to look at and the church doesn’t charge people to use them. Nor does it take long to write out a short message. But many people feel that receiving them is a blessing from God. They feel that God is using the caring nature of their friends to highlight – in receiving a card is extra just a small way – his own special. It can be kept love for them. as a bookmark or put I know that whenever on the fridge, regularly I have received a card to reminding us that God encourage me, I have felt loves us. uplifted. The kind action Is there someone today of another brings me who could do with some reassurance, often at just encouragement from the moment I need it the us? Could we put aside most. five minutes to write As well as sending cards, we can telephone people, text them or send them a tweet or a Facebook message.

We can visit them.

But I always think that

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SOMETIMES it’s the little things in life that make a big difference. Hearing a person say ‘Thank you’ or ‘I love you’ can make us feel special.

by JIM BURNS someone a note, letting them know the Bible’s great truth that nothing ‘will be able to separate us from the love of God’ (Romans 8:39 New International Version).

It is important for us to feel encouraged. But it is also important for us to encourage others.

It is important for us to feel encouraged

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What’s cooking?

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I’M Michael Darracott; I have been an executive chef in several large establishments in charge of cooking for 200-plus people. I have also written a number of books. It gives me great pleasure to offer my recipes in The War Cry. I invite readers to send in recipe ideas, to be considered for publication here. I would also like to offer help with any cooking-related problems you have. So send in your question and, if it is selected, an answer will be published on this page.

Email your recipes and questions to chefmike56@chefmikedarracott.com

Cornish pasty

Cook with chef MICHAEL DARRACOTT chefmikedarracott.com

Donna of Liverpool asks:

Why does my bread turn out hard?

I have been trying to make bread recently, but it always ends up being hard like a brick and heavy.

What am I doing wrong?

Ingredients: For the pastry 500g plain flour 30g margarine 125g lard 180ml cold water For the filling 470g beef skirt 260g swede 460g potatoes 200g onion 1tsp butter Salt and pepper 1 egg

Method: To make the pastry, knead the fats into the flour until it looks like breadcrumbs. Add the water and mix together to form a dough. Place the dough in the fridge and leave for 1–2 hours.

Remove the dough from the fridge and divide into 4 balls. Roll out each dough ball into a circle, roughly the size of a tea plate.

To make the filling, chop all the vegetables into small pieces and place in a bowl. Chop the meat into bitesized chunks and add to the vegetables. Mix well.

Place a handful of the mixture in the centre of each pastry circle, season to taste, then top with the butter. Fold the pastry over the filling until it is enclosed. Moisten the sides of the dough with a little water to help it stick together, then crimp the sides to seal.

Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas Mark 7.

Whisk the egg and use it to glaze the top of each SUDOKU SOLUTION pasty. Place the pasties on a baking sheet, cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove the foil before baking for a further 30 minutes. Serve immediately.

Makes 4

There can be many reasons why bread comes out hard.

Fermentation during proving produces carbon dioxide, which should make your bread light. So when proving, make sure that you allow the dough to at least double in size.

It should be left in a warm place, such as your airing cupboard, during proving.

During the breadmaking process, up to and including proving, ensure that the temperature of the yeast mix does not

exceed about 45C. Higher temperatures will kill the yeast and the dough will never double in size. So be careful with the temperature of the milk which you add to the yeast and the temperature of the place where you prove your dough.

Also, make sure you put in the exact amount of flour required by the recipe.

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FREE Merida impresses the kingdom with her archery skills

BRAVE hearts be ready for a question: ‘If you had the chance to change your fate, would you?’ Princess Merida considers the answer in Brave, the latest Disney-Pixar animation to hit cinemas.

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Set a long time ago in the rugged Scottish Highlands, the film focuses on Merida (Kelly Macdonald), who would rather be out taking part in archery competitions than behaving like a prim and proper princess. When her parents King Fergus and Queen Elinor announce that it is about time their teenage daughter married one of the suitors from a neighbouring clan, Merida is incensed.

She flees to the forest where she encounters a witch who has the solution to her problems – a spell guaranteed to change her interfering mother. But once the spell is

We can aim for change writes CLAIRE BRINE

cast, it may prove to cause more trouble than Merida bargained for.

Merida is desperate. She wants her freedom. She can’t understand why her mother refuses to give it to her in the first place. But the Queen has the welfare of the kingdom on her mind. She knows that if Merida won’t marry, war is more likely to break out. It’s a tough situation.

The Queen raises a question for Merida to consider: ‘Are are you willing to pay the price that your freedom will cost?’

It’s a fair point.

None of us likes to feel oppressed. The idea of being completely free – from the demands of others, addiction, even our own selfishness – is hugely

None of us likes to feel oppressed

desirable. Perhaps we dream about experiencing freedom some day, but think it’s impossible.

It isn’t. We can be free.

Speaking to a group of people whose nation was under occupation, Jesus said: ‘If you obey my teaching … you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free’ (John 8:31, 32 Good News Bible).

That also applies to us. When we turn to Jesus, confess our wrongdoing and ask him to set us free, he will.

As we follow his teaching – loving our enemies and forgiving those who hurt us – we become new people. We are free from bitterness, anger, fear and guilt.

The price is being prepared to hand over our lives to him. Are we willing to pay that to be free?

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